A Future History of Water

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dc.contributor.authorBallestero, Andrea
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-16T17:20:06Z
dc.date.available2019-07-16T17:20:06Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionBased on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water traces the unspectacular work necessary to make water access a human right and a human right something different from a commodity. Andrea Ballestero shows how these ephemeral distinctions are made through four technolegal devices—formula, index, list and pact. She argues that what is at stake in these devices is not the making of a distinct future but what counts as the future in the first place. A Future History of Water is an ethnographically rich and conceptually charged journey into ant-filled water meters, fantastical water taxonomies, promises captured on slips of paper, and statistical maneuvers that dissolve the human of human rights. Ultimately, Ballestero demonstrates what happens when instead of trying to fix its meaning, we make water’s changing form the precondition of our analyses.
dc.identifier.citationBallestero, Andrea. "A Future History of Water." (2019) Duke University Press: https://doi.org/10.25611/egc8-n043.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25611/egc8-n043
dc.identifier.isbn9781478004516
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/106143
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherDuke University Press
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.keywordwater
dc.subject.keywordhuman rights
dc.subject.keywordcommodification
dc.subject.keywordprivatization
dc.subject.keywordCosta Rica
dc.subject.keywordBrazil
dc.subject.keywordscience and technology studies
dc.subject.keywordcultural anthropology
dc.subject.keywordlegal anthropology
dc.subject.keywordanthropology of knowledge
dc.subject.keywordeconomic anthropology
dc.subject.keywordfinance
dc.titleA Future History of Water
dc.typeBook
dc.type.dcmiText
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